Examples

This offered an uncannily accurate definition of the adjective 'proleptic' – attempting to come to terms with something that has yet to happen, or, to put it more cynically, getting your retaliation in first.

The right likes to pretend it didn't lose; the center flatters itself that it's where all the vital action is; and at least some of the left is habituated to a kind of proleptic-disappointment mode, ready to jump ship two months before it sails.

Furthermore, their ideological interest in his doing so became his own over time and fully congruent with the atheistic triumphalism in Huxley's words of proleptic appreciation for the Origin: ‘You have killed God, Sir.’